User:The.Q

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Originally from Sligo Town (or should that be 'Sligo City'?) but now living in County Sligo. Always happy to hear from anyone with anything of interest to say here.

Pictures of the Day

Commons picture of the day

A big wave breaking in Santa Cruz, California on this date in 2009.—Click the image for more information—

Picture of the day

European spruce bark beetle

Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus

My Pages

These are my sub-pages.

The following are links to pages I may want to get access to quickly.

Wikipedia:Template_messages/User_talk_namespace
Template: Cite book (for citing references to books)
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Template: Cite web (for citing references to websites)
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Template: Cite news (for citing references to newspapers)
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Userboxes & Edits

Userboxes

amn't

This user considers amn't a perfectly logical alternative to aren’t in the first person singular.

... in.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which this user will not put.

to
too
two

This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two.

whom

This user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever he sees.

their
there
they're

This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling!

your
you're

This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you're in need of help.

A, B and C

This user prefers not to use the serial comma.

its & it's

This user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you.

its
it's

It's really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner.

’s

Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.

vn-1

This user page has been vandalized once.

SR
FC

This user supports The Bit O'Red

This user is interested in his local history.

CASH

This user shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

This user is Irish and
lives in Ireland.

This user is a
resident citizen of the
Republic of Ireland.

M

This user is a muggle.

Dad

This user is a father and proud of it!

:-]

This user is polite and expects others to act accordingly.

en

This user is a native speaker of the English language.

ga-2

Tá Gaeilge de chaighdeán meánach ag an úsáideoir seo.

IE

This user uses Irish English.

en-
ie

This user himself he thinks that Hiberno-English is just grand.

right-minded

This user believes that only left-handed users are in their right minds.

ANAL 5

This user is incredibly stringent with professional grammar.

This user has been a member of Wikipedia since 28 Feb 2006.

 357+

This user has over 357 pages on his watchlist.

"…"?

This user thinks "British punctuation is best for quotation marks". Do you?

This user spends WAY too much time on Wikipedia and really needs to get off the computer... after one more edit.

This user is not British, but shares a common heritage and respects a parity of esteem between the many people of "these islands".

This user knows
The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

Vicipéid
Oibrím ar ailt sa Vicipéid Ghaeilge.

I support the Irish language Wikipedia with my contributions.

Here are some of the articles I have created, edited or in which I am otherwise interested:

Articles

Sligo related

Music related

Other Ireland related

Other Miscellaneous

Wikipedia pages

Templates

Images